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Douglas Hurd

  1. Aid for trade policy rears its ugly head | Deborah Doane
    Guardian Unlimited logo Guardian Unlimited 1 week ago
    MDG : Malaysia Pergau dam : World Development Movement director Roger Brioget celebrates

    The case itself was a scandal, leading to parliamentary investigations and the alleged forced resignation of a permanent secretary. The then UK foreign secretary Douglas Hurd's job was also on the line. However, in spite of the fallout, the commercial...

  2. William Hague: Why the International Community Has to Come Together to Help Somalia
    The Huffington Post logo The Huffington Post 1 week ago

    September 1992 Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd visited Mogadishu. He could not have known that it would be 20 years before any of his successors set foot in the country again. Shortly after his visit Britain's Embassy was shut and Somalia plunged deeper...

  3. William Hague visits Somalia – video
    Guardian Unlimited logo Guardian Unlimited 1 week ago

    Hague has made the first visit to Mogadishu by a British foreign secretary since Douglas Hurd in 1992. Together with Matt Baugh, Britain's first ambassador to Somalia in 21 years, Hague met the president, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, who has agreed to...

  4. UK appoints first ambassador to Somalia in 21 years
    Guardian Unlimited logo Guardian Unlimited 1 week ago
    Somali president meets UK ambassador

    Baugh will remain based in Kenya's capital Nairobi until security conditions permit the opening of an embassy in Mogadishu. Hague described Somalia as "the world's most failed state". The last British foreign secretary to visit Mogadishu before him was...

  5. Why aren't there more women on Radio 4's Today? Because men love showing off while we'd rather have a life. Is that sexist enough, boys?
    Daily Mail - UK logo Daily Mail - UK 2 weeks ago
    Libby Purves: For nearly four years of dawn shifts I worked at getting straight answers out of union barons and CBI panjandrums. Through it all, I remained female. Not a problem

    I knew what to do. I wasn’t particularly treated as junior, though being 20 years newer to the political scene than the chaps, it made sense for Brian, in particular, to do the biggest political interviews. But I did my share, grappled with Denis...

  6. BBC HARDtalk- Douglas Hurd (2 of 3)
    YouTube Logo YouTube Videos 23 months ago
  7. January Books 20) Scotch on the Rocks, by Douglas Hurd and Andrew Osmond : LibDemBlogs
    UK Poli Blogs logo UK Poli Blogs 3 weeks ago

    A Conservative prime minister, having failed to secure an majority for his party at Westminster, finds himself dealing with a Scottish Nationalist Party leader who is ascendant in Scotland; can a slide towards independence be bought off with an offer...

  8. She Knew She Was Right | Douglas Hurd | New Statesman | 09 January 2012
    The Browser logo The Browser 3 weeks ago

    Phyllida Lloyd's film about Margaret Thatcher, The Iron Lady, is an ambitious project. It aims high and is almost, but not quite, a masterpiece. It was daring to portray the career of a politician simply in terms of the joys and sadnesses that return to...

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About Douglas Hurd

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Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE, PC (born 8 March 1930), is a senior British Conservative politician and novelist, who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major between 1979 and his retirement in 1995. Viewed as one of the Conservative Party's senior elder statesmen, he is a patron of the Tory Reform... Full Article

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